New Edition of Advanced Quant: Study the Hardest Quant Questions
I am super excited to announce a new edition of our Advanced Quant Strategy Guide! We worked hard on this book all of last year (yes, it takes a long time make a book!) and we hope that you find it to be a valuable addition to your GMAT preparation.
What is the Advanced Quant guide?
We created the Advanced Quant (AQ) guide a few years ago for people who want to get a top score (50 or 51) on the quant section of the GMAT.
Heres the interesting thing: it doesnt teach you a bunch of really hard math concepts. We teach all of those concepts in our five regular strategy guides (Algebra, Geometry, Word Problems, Number Properties, and Fractions, Decimals, & Percents). Instead, the AQ guide teaches you the next level of GMAT study: how to think your way through really hard Quant problems.
Whats new in this edition?
A bunch of things! First, there are more than 50 brand-new, extremely hard problems. We actually removed some old ones that we thought were a bit too easy and replaced them with harder problems.
But thats not all. Since the entire point of this book is how to solve better, weve updated some solutions to existing problems because weve discovered an even more efficient or effective way to solve.
Weve also introduced a new organization method for working your way systematically through any quant problem. Weve added or expanded lessons on test-taking strategies, such as testing cases on both problem solving and data sufficiency problems.
One student, who has already used the old version of AQ, asked whether we would provide a list indicating which questions are the new ones. I told him no. Not because Im lazy or I dont care, but because you dont need such a list! If youve already tried the first edition and want to try this one, too, just start going through the book. If you hit a problem you remember, feel free to skip it. (Although maybe this is a chance to see if you really do remember what to do and remember that we may offer an updated solution that you havent seen before.) If you hit a problem you dont remember, then it doesn't matter whether its old or new. Its new to you right at this moment!
Who should use the AQ Strategy Guide?
First, you should have mastered most (if not all) of the material in our five main quant Strategy Guides. As I mentioned earlier, we do not actually teach you that math in this guide. We assume that you already know it.
As a general rule, we recommend that people avoid using this book until theyve gotten to a score of at least 47 on a practice CAT. (Seriously. We say so right in the first chapter of the book!) I might let that slide a bit for certain students, but someone scoring below 45 likely does not have the underlying content knowledge needed to make the best use of the Advanced Quant lessons.
Note that, from an admissions standpoint, you may not necessarily need to score higher than 47. The scoring scale tops out at 51, so 47 is already quite high. Do a little research to see what you may need for the specific schools to which you plan to apply.
All right, thats all Ive got for you today. Id love to hear what you think about the book. Which problem is your favorite? And which one do you think is the absolute hardest, most evil thing we could have given you? Let us know in the comments!